Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen by Paul Dresch

Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen by Paul Dresch

Professor Dresch combines ethnography with history to describe the tribal system over the last thousand years, and examines the values the tribal people themselves bring to the contemporary world of nation states. Drawing heavily on local histories and unpublished documents, as well as on three years' field work, he discusses the place of these tribes in the world around them from the tenth century to the twentieth. Beginning and ending with the means by which tribesmen define themselves, he discusses the relation of the major tribes to the area as a whole, to pre-modern Islamic learning, the Zaydi Imamate, and ideas of contemporary statehood. This book will be of interest to readers concerned with the relation of anthropology to history and also to those from other disciplines who are concerned with Arabia past and present. It offers a fresh approach to issues which arise throughout the Middle East.

A deeply engaged and engaging work, complexly and grandly conceived and wittily written, its scholarship is also miles above sea level* Times Literary Supplement *
For those who would like to know more about tribal life in North Yemen this book is full of interest. Dresch has been able to give a picture of a society destined to change, possibly out of recognition. * Times Higher Education Supplement *

Paul Dresch is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. James Piscatori is Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.

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ISBN 13	9780198277903
ISBN 10	0198277903
Title	Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen
Author	Paul Dresch
Series	Clarendon Paperbacks
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1993-12-02
Number of pages	470
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